Shoe-heeling method and product thereof.



A. PERHI. SHOE HEELING METHOD AND PRODUCT THEREO APPLICATION FlLE D MAY 6. I918.

Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

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To whom may concern:

it known that I, finesse PIERRE, s citizen oi the United States, residing st Grovelsnd, in the county of Ess x and State of lilisssschusetts, invei' (l ceriain new and useful in movements in Shoe-Heeling l'iiethmis {incl Prochieis Thereof oi? which. the following is e speeiiieeion, reference being had 'l'heirein JO iihe accompanying drswi'n R H n .7 7 r x v s ,3 a illla 1m eniion ieiaces so Li i-ie sues l n heeling indhed incl pTCiClaiGi) theme-it. The

more complete Obie sis to improve the ineihoil of preparing and attaching the heel to the shoe, and the novel msieie or product which peiiniis ihe practice such 11 heal. The more detailed objects and aclmnzzves OI" the present improvement Wiil be made Clem in the hereinafter, follewing descwip tion of one iliustiacive embodiment thereof, or will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

To the attainment of suchobjects and edvantages the present invention consists broken away. showing the piercing oi s series -rispth neii hoies in e particular nis enei' thei is, diver uigly, h s gang or eivergmgly actuated awls. h i is a top plan view of the heel ithe stage of the process shown in 3, lens with the F 53 is a View simiiei' to Fig. 3, but showing e series of nails inserted loosely in the sh0rt-depth diverging nail holes, and, (iiagrammeticelly, a driver shout to act upon she nails. Gin as similar View shows the subsequent inthe preperosion of the heel when the nails have been driven almost, not quite, threes-h she (is; oi the heel. '3 in a, Si; i er View shows the later stage in which the neel has spplied to the iii'verieel shoe arcl ihe nails sleiven sufiieienily i0 b i the soie eisnc lvIiETI-KGD A3333 Syeeiieekion E's esters Patent.

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111 e oeitisi, similar View shows n which the protruding nsii ends at i the "cop =9 is s top yievv shewir I hese two amp; which, he'wei'ei'q -e 1 es n Fig. 9.

his will .as observed from zimwings, inventi L will be shown as eppliec'i in 'he manufacture of high-heels l ladies shoes, .19 more parsiciila'r epplimzsion ithe impiovement, slthongh some of Giai-UTQS might be otherwise empioyed. fieretofore in the msnufaeiure of such shoes 1 series oi nails has been d iven thieugfgh the e l the top or small end n VQIEiCZll *ellel clii'ections, with she rese "0 the scsusi attachment of heel to the hoe of the nee through a series or circle of eaiaehi'nens points es close. together and so 211 from the periphery of heel at *ohis point as 0 give 9. very unstehie sncl insecure fasten ing.

in has also been proposed to is. dn'ergmgiy.through certain ieei 3 'sive. The exact structure or? this fosms no MM are of the present inventien and nee'i not he descriheci in detail. As is .iisue'i, she hep lift 21'is not applied origineliy, but is shewn in Figs. iehslkw ssspplied finsily aim: the attachment 0;?- the heei ice the'sheeu The first step in prepmingshe heei et- .iechmeiii; is the compressing step, whieh is indicssed in Fig. 2, first by the fact that eh heei in that 1 of shei'ier Vertical chs nieiision than in L i,

seconnl by he 115 concave underside, Which is shaped in a Well-known manner to fit the convexly curved exterior of the shoe, to which the and the nails driven. directly in'diverging directions. As shown in Fig. 3, the pierced holes may be formed by a gang of awls 24:, Working simultaneously in a manner devised by me; although the holes might be pierced one at a time by the same or different awls. It is not necessary to pierce the nail holes to the full depth of the heel, but only to a short depth, as indicated, the nails being able to force their own way accurately through the remainder of the thickness of the heel. The pierced short-depth holes take the nails and serve as efiective guides to insure that the nails will continue to travel in a predetermined diverging man ner, as they are driven.

The next step is to remove the awls 24 and insert in the nail holes 23 a series of nails 25, which may be square-shanked nails without heads, tapering slightly from the top to the bottom, and of sutlicient length for attaching purposes. The several nails may vary in length, according to the varying distances they have to be driven. Thus, there may be,

' for example, seven nails altogether, the three rearmost of a 'longer length, and the other four of a shorterlength.

The next step is the driving of the nails substantially through the heel, but preferably not emerging, it is desirable to assemble the heel and shoe after this stage in the process, and complete the driving and attachment as a separate operation.- Fig. 6 shows the nails 25 as driven downwardly substantially to the emerging point, and conventionally I have illustrated a driver 26 in Fig. 5 capable of this step, or a plurality of drivel-s27, 28, in Fig. 6. They may operate by a series of blows directed toward the nail tops, or a single forcible blow or thrust.

The next step is to assemble the prepared heelwith the shoe in the manner indicated in Fig. 7 The shoe is shown as comprising a convexly curvedoutsole 29, insole 30, and

upper 31. The shoe at this stage preferably contains a wooden last with metallic bottoms to serve as an anvil to turn and clench the nails, although other forms of anvil or clenching means may be employed.

When the heel and shoe have been assembled, as described, the driving of-the nails '25 is completed in the mannerindicated in.

Fig. 7, the nails being thrust downwardly until their lower ends are clenched within the shoe sole. Preferably this is so done as to leave all of the nails protruding upwardly at 32 beyond the top of the heel for a slight distance, as indicated in Fig. 7, although these protruding ends might in some cases be omitted or removed where the top lift is omitted or is otherwise attached.

The protruding nail tops in Fig. 7 now stand convergingly, and the next step in my method is to bend or deflect each of these so that they stand parallel to each other, and preferably at right angles to the top surface of the heel, as shown at 33 in Fig. 8, which illustrates this stage in the method.

Sometimes I prefer to complete the driving action to the point indicated in Fig. 7 and perform the bending action, as indicated in Fig. 8, in substantially a single operation by means of suitable drivers, benders or dies, the bending being performed toward the completion of the driving and as a continuation of the action thereof; and it 'will be understood that during thedriving of the nails at all stages and until the Fig. 8 stage has been arrived at, the several nails may be laterally supported or braced or guided against. undue strain, breakage or undesirable bonding. The preferred means that l have devised for this purpose is not herein shown.

\Vith the protruding nail ends 33 standing thus parallel to each other and having, no heads, the subsequent step of driving the top lift 21 to engage the protruding ends on top of the heel is easily performed by a simple striking or pressing action; it being understood that glue has been previously applied between the heel top and the top lift before the latter is pressed into place. i

The shoe is now completed, with the exception ofv the usual heel trimming operations, indicated by the dotted line 34 in Fig. 9, which operations, however, constitute no part of the present invention. The shoe or product, whose manufacture has thus been described, comprises a heel substantially smaller at the top than at the base, and secured to the shoe by a series of attaching nails having a diverging arrangement, so that the attachment oints are spaced or arranged over a much arger circumference or area than the points at which the nails are driilren'throughthe small or top end of the bee I have herein used relative terms, upward, downward top. bottom, base, on the assumption that the shoe is inverted as shown, so that the part of the heel usually known as the tread is considered as the top, and the seat of the heel as the bottom or base.

I prefer to carry out the described principles of this invention by a, machine of a 'type in which the heels are successively ineashes .8

to a new location where the described compressing action takes place, and then again shifts the heel to a new location where a suitable piercing means operatesupon it, followed by "another shift, and thereafter the insertion and the partial driving of the nails. I prefer at this point to have the heels discharged or removed from the machine and assembled elsewhere in a second machine with the shoe, where the final driving and attaching operations are performed, the bending of the protruding nail tops, the application of the top lift, and finally the trimming of the heel.

A machine suitable for carrying out certain embodiments of the present invention is fully shown and claimed in'my copending application Serial No, 262,104, filed November 1]., 1918.

It will thus be seen'that I have described a shoe'heeling method and the product thereof embodying the principles of the present invention and attaining the objectsand advantages beforedescribed. Since many matnumber of steps of procedure and details" ters of arrangement, combination, order or may be modifie'dlwithout departing from the underlying principles, I do not desire to re, strict the invention to such features except in so far as specified in the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

l. A shoe heeling method comprising driving a seriesof nails divergingly into the heel top so as to give a line of attachment to the sole proximate to the heel periphery, leaving the converging nail tops outstanding slightly and bending them into substantial parallelism, and forcing a top lift into lace upon said nail tops.

2. A shoe heeling method comprising piercing divergingholes into theheel top, lnserting nails therein, and driving the nails divergingly into the sole, leaving the con verging nail tops outstanding slightly and bending them into substantial parallelism,

and forcing a top lift into place upon'said nail tops.

3. A shoe heeling method comprising piercing diverging short-depth holes in a series around the heel top, inserting nails therein, driving the nails nearly to emerge, applying the heel to the shoe, and completing the driving and clenching of the nails," leaving the converging nail tops outstanding slightly and bending them into substantial parallelism, and forcing a top lift into place upon said nail tops.

4. A shoe comprising'sole and heel, said heel consisting of body portion, and top lift and attaching nails passing completely through the heel body portion into the sole at different angles, the top ends of the nails being bent relatively to their main portions into parallel relation, and there engaging in the heel top lift. I

5. A shoe comprising sole and heel, said heel consisting of body portion and top lift and attaching nails extending from a series of points at the top of the body portion divergingly to aseries of further spaced oints where they pass from the heel base into the sole, the top ends of the nails being bent relatively to their main portions into parallel relation, and there engaging in the heel top lift.

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature hereto.

. ANGELO PERRI. 

